#fdio-csit: FD.io CSIT project meeting

Meeting started by mackonstan at 14:57:05 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

  1. Agenda bashing (mackonstan, 15:01:29)
    1. Dave Wallace (dwallacelf, 15:01:56)
    2. Jan Gelety (jgelety, 15:02:02)
    3. Vratko Polak (vrpolak, 15:03:16)
    4. Tibor Frank (tifrank, 15:03:17)

  2. FD.io CSIT physical labs (mackonstan, 15:04:33)
    1. need to update inventory list in testbed_specifications.md file, Mohammed to address (mackonstan, 15:05:30)
    2. https://github.com/FDio/csit/blob/master/docs/lab/testbed_specifications.md (mackonstan, 15:05:32)

  3. Arm testbeds (mackonstan, 15:05:42)
    1. Mohammed - mgmt switch is up, links are up, but addressing not configured (mackonstan, 15:06:23)
    2. IPMI reachability is in place (mackonstan, 15:08:21)
    3. Mohammed - waiting for VPN access in order to configure IP addresses on links (mackonstan, 15:09:00)

  4. Atom testbeds (mackonstan, 15:09:38)
    1. Ray - Denverton benchmarked externally with VPP-19.01.1, results pushed out into report (mackonstan, 15:10:27)
    2. Ray - still waiting for IP addresses to be provisioned (mackonstan, 15:11:12)
    3. Mohammed - IP addresses being provisioned right now. Delay due to LFN / Vexxhost responsibility adjustments. All the CSIT activities related to physical labs will be handled by Vexxhost directly. Mohammed to provide engagement process and tools. (mackonstan, 15:14:28)
    4. Rangeley - setup is incomplete. No status change. (mackonstan, 15:16:20)
    5. Other failures, issues (mackonstan, 15:17:29)
    6. Peter - SSD disk replaced, some hiccups (ssd not seen, link flapping) - t31 coming back online later today, fingers crossed (mackonstan, 15:18:16)

  5. Inputs from LFN and FD.io projects (mackonstan, 15:18:33)
    1. VPP - Dave - 19.04 work continues, VPP API flag-day discussed (mackonstan, 15:19:51)
    2. HC - Michal - bumping ODL version - controller, etc, impacts CSIT tests (mackonstan, 15:20:50)
    3. TSC - FD.io BOM for lab refresh in progress.. (mackonstan, 15:22:00)

  6. Operational status (mackonstan, 15:22:18)
    1. Peter - Jenkins master to slave (java session) timeouts - impacts ~50% vpp_device jobs, both vpp-csit- and csit-vpp; few performance tests affected too.. (mackonstan, 15:23:50)
    2. Peter - will open ticket and fwd to csit-dev (mackonstan, 15:24:33)
    3. Jan - Centos CI testing status - waiting for Centos7 image from Tom FH.. currently Centos jobs are down, not even installing vpp (mackonstan, 15:25:25)
    4. Jan - Ubuntu 16.04 - new vpp dependency(ies) making vpp fail to start (mackonstan, 15:25:59)
    5. Maciek - will ping TFH for confirming Centos7 status, and how to support this work going forward (mackonstan, 15:28:55)

  7. VPP code performance (mackonstan, 15:29:20)
    1. 3n-hsw - 2 tests failing, vxlan scale (mackonstan, 15:31:06)
    2. 3n-skx - many failures, looks like infra issue (mackonstan, 15:31:18)
    3. 3n-skx - Peter to verify and report issue (mackonstan, 15:31:47)
    4. performance trending - IPSec zigzags (mackonstan, 15:33:12)
    5. https://docs.fd.io/csit/master/trending/trending/ipsec-3n-hsw-xl710-64b-base-scale.html#t1c (mackonstan, 15:33:20)

  8. Releases (mackonstan, 15:34:55)
    1. CSIT-1901_1 report (mackonstan, 15:35:09)
    2. https://docs.fd.io/csit/rls1901_1/report/ (mackonstan, 15:35:24)
    3. Tibor - spot check testing only, per report (e.g. no NFV density) (mackonstan, 15:35:45)
    4. Dave - suggested to add a note to rls notes about limited test runs, ie data not statistically significant (mackonstan, 15:40:17)
    5. Jan - issue CSIT-1466 - fixed in one of subsequent VPP patches (mackonstan, 15:44:17)

  9. Developments - Testbed installer (mackonstan, 15:46:22)
    1. Peter - working and tested many times across different environments (mackonstan, 15:47:09)
    2. only pre-requisite - ubuntu 18.04 installed, everything else is taken care of per readme, incl. dependencies (mackonstan, 15:47:58)
    3. instructions in readme at link below (mackonstan, 15:48:51)
    4. https://git.fd.io/csit/tree/resources/tools/testbed-setup/README.rst (mackonstan, 15:49:01)

  10. VAT to PAPI migration (mackonstan, 15:49:13)
    1. Tibor - all infra work now done, vpp-stats in review (mackonstan, 15:56:04)
    2. Jan - still working on L2Util.py, as VPP code keeps changing … (mackonstan, 15:56:48)
    3. need to coordinate with vpp-devs that are updating vpp binary and papi APIs - Dave to verify with Ole, Jakub, over #csit-papi slack channel (mackonstan, 15:57:47)

  11. Proposal to automate VPP-API "Flag Day" (mackonstan, 15:58:04)
    1. DaveW - lots of comments in gerrit patch, expecting updated version soon (mackonstan, 15:58:24)
    2. https://gerrit.fd.io/r/#/c/18356/ (mackonstan, 15:58:34)
    3. proposal to use VPP_Device for VPP-API verify job (mackonstan, 15:59:21)

  12. Test suite generator update (mackonstan, 15:59:36)
    1. Vratko - work done, all suites updated, updating RF tag based match expressions for daily trending job to keep it under 12hrs, weekly jobs need to be updated too.. (mackonstan, 16:01:15)
    2. Vratko - going forward need to make it easier for PAL to select tests for daily/trending and other regular jobs. (mackonstan, 16:10:58)


Meeting ended at 16:11:02 UTC (full logs).

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